Mary (Polly) Lawton Bringhurst

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

1790

James Peale
American, 1749–1831

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: James Peale
Title: Mary (Polly) Lawton Bringhurst
Origin: Philadelphia
Date: 1790
Medium: Watercolor on ivory
Inscriptions: Signed, lower right:"I P 1790"
Dimensions: 6.3 × 5.2 cm (2 1/2 × 2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Mary Louise Stevenson Fund
Reference Number: 1958.410
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“Historic Miniatures in America,” Journal of American History 4 (1910), 569–70 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 124–128, no. 50.

Detroit Institute of Art, The Peale Family: Three Generations of American Artists, Jan 18–Mar 5, 1967; Utica, New York, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, cat. 76 (as Mrs. Charles Willson Peale).
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokens of Affection: the Portrait Miniature in America, Nov 20, 1990–Feb 10, 1991; Washington DC, Smithsonian, National Museum of American Art, Marh 29–Jun 16, 1991; Art Institute of Chicago, Sep 1–Niovember 17, 1991.

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